Balística: testigo silencioso de un hecho punible

Abstract

Forensic ballistics is a fundamental tool in the sciences of criminology, because of this, its results are supported by scientific processes and procedures that accompany a methodological research plan, help the investigator to clarify the facts surrounding a behavior punishable In order to create this investigation, we will analyze the events that took place on October 21, 2016 inside the facilities of the Artillery Battalion in Bogotá, all the time that at 03:00 am shots are heard from the 2nd checkpoint, second round Wilson Perez Whoever found himself as the guard commander moved immediately to the sentry box and is found on the brick floor Arturo Morantes thrown on the floor with a wound in the abdomen. Seriously wounded, the soldier states that two people attempted to deprive him of his gun, otherwise he tried but one of them fired with the same gun about ten meters away, when the attackers realized the wound they fled leaving the gun Fire Corporal Perez on hearing the shots in the sentry box and encounters the soldier Morantes very badly wounded. The corporal after a soldier with the supervision of his state of health, before the gravity of the wounds that present the soldier request his transferred in ambulance until the military hospital with the reserved forecast, the commander of guardian dialogues with some Companions of the soldier and These the soldier that sold the soldier Morantes had said in his displeasure to be rendering the service, and that therefore they look for the form of not to continue, but with the intention to secure some money. As a presumed criminal offense, involving a firearm, the Technical Investigation Corps of the Military Criminal Justice collected as evidence elements a high-caliber firearm, cartridges, projectiles and the soldier's warrior ;; Being duly set, collected, embalmed and labeled respecting the standards of the chain of custody to be submitted to the investigation and controversy within a Martial Court. Consequently, Ballistics is the science indicated to study the various factors that surround the achievement of facts, stories such as the entrance and exit holes of the projectile, as well as the physical and chemical marks that are obtained from the soldier's warrior So as to allow scientific clarification of the distance at which the firearm was operated and in the sense of determining whether the wounds were self-infringing